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7:05 PM ET, December 4, 2012

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Fox News chief's failed attempt to enlist Petraeus as presidential candidate — Roger Ailes, the longtime Republican media guru, founder of Fox News and its current chairman, had some advice last year for then-Gen. David H. Petraeus. — So in spring 2011, Ailes asked a Fox News analyst headed …

Discussion: Daily Download, mediabistro.com, Washington Post, Guardian, Erik Wemple, New York Magazine, The Wrap, Media Decoder, Politico, Los Angeles Times, The Week, The Daily Beast, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, msnbc.com, Poynter and Gothamist

Dylan Byers / Politico:

If Roger Ailes does it, it isn't a scandal — Imagine waking up to this breaking news alert: “In spring 2011, Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC, advised Sec. of State Hillary Clinton to abandon her plans for life outside the public sector and run for president against Barack Obama in 2012.”

Erik Wemple:

Five takeaways from the Fox News-David Petraeus conspiracy — The Washington Post's Bob Woodward has dropped a nice little headline for the world's media nerds. “Fox News chief's failed attempt to enlist Petraeus as presidential candidate.” Turns out that Roger Ailes, who runs Fox News …

Discussion: The Week and Pressing Issues

Taylor Berman / Gawker:
Roger Ailes Tried to Convince David Petraeus to Run for President in 2011, Said Rupert Murdoch Would “Bankroll” It

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Chickaboomer and Mediaite

Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker:

Photo of Man's Imminent Demise Covers Front Page of the New York Post, Sparks Outrage — A freelance photographer working for the New York Post on an unrelated assignment happened to be standing on the 49th Street station platform when 58-year-old Queens resident Ki Suk Han was suddenly pushed onto …

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

New York Post's Subway Death Photo: Was It Ethical Photojournalism? — When a news photographer witnesses a tragedy in the making, is his obligation to intervene or to document it? — That question has cropped up anew following the New York Post's publication, on its front page …

Discussion: Gawker and Daily Download

Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
Who Let This Man Die on the Subway?

Discussion: Poynter, Capital New York, Digital Spy, BBC, The Week, Gawker, The Huffington Post and HyperVocal

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Tabloid photographers defend colleague who snapped ‘Post’ subway horror shot

Discussion: Speakeasy

Tom McGeveran / The New Republic: The New York Post Was Tasteless. That's the Point.

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Why ‘The Daily’ Failed — Jeff Sonderman, writing for Poynter: With the benefit of hindsight, there seem to be at least two other major lessons from The Daily's failure: Audience clarity. It was difficult to grasp who exactly was the intended audience of The Daily.

Discussion: The Onion, mediabistro.com, The Daily Beast, The New York Observer, TechCrunch, The Daily Dish, Marco.org, Reuters, The Conversation, Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day and Jack Shafer

Jordan Kurzweil / GigaOM:

Why I tried to buy The Daily — Closing The Daily was a mistake. It should have been saved. — The move to shutter follows the same battiness with which News Corp has been approaching digital ventures since its first foray into the web with iGuide in 1995: ahead-of-the-curve with a grand …

Discussion: MarketWatch, Guardian and The Week

Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:

Vogue Editor Wintour Said to Be Possible Appointee as U.K. Envoy — President Barack Obama is considering nominating Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, as his next ambassador to either the U.K. or France as he looks to reward his biggest fundraisers with embassies never out of fashion …

Discussion: Mediaite, FishbowlNY, Fashionista, The Daily Beast, The Week, Chickaboomer, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, msnbc.com, Vanity Fair and The Huffington Post

Los Angeles Times:

Netflix takes Disney pay-TV rights from Starz — Netflix in 2016 will feature recently released movies from Walt Disney Studios. (Netflix) — Netflix has acquired the exclusive U.S. rights to movies from Walt Disney Studios films, beginning in 2016, in a three-year deal that catapults …

Discussion: PR Newswire, AllThingsD, The Next Web, VatorNews and Light Reading

Brad Reed / BGR:
Netflix signs deal with Disney to deliver movies to your living room while they're still in theatres

Discussion: Associated Press, TechCrunch and GigaOM

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Pandora shares plumments after hours on weak earnings — Pandora's stock price was down more than 20 percent this evening after the company reported that it missed financial targets. — Pandora Media, the company behind the Web's largest radio service, saw its share price drop nearly 20 percent in after-hours trading this evening.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Betabeat and Pandora

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Pandora Beats, Q3 2013 Revenue Up 60% To $120M, Net Income Of $2.1M; Q4 Forecast Much Lower Than Expected

Discussion: CNET and MarketWatch

Guardian:

David Cameron tells editors: implement Leveson to avoid press law — Prime minister gives newspaper editors until Thursday to show progress in agreeing on reformed regulatory structure — David Cameron has told national newspaper editors they must implement the Leveson report recommendations …

Discussion: Bloomberg

Reuters:
Cameron: clock ticking for newspapers to clean up act

Discussion: Guardian

Guido Fawkes: Who Has Been Naughty and Nice This Year? MPs on Each Side of the Leveson Debate

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Cleveland Plain Dealer tells Guild it plans to cut about one-third of newsroom staff — In a note posted on Facebook, Guild members say the Advance-owned Cleveland Plain Dealer has told them it plans to eliminate about one-third of the staff in 2013. The changes would come after the latest contract …

Discussion: GigaOM, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Wrap and Crain's Cleveland Business

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Les Moonves: '[CBS News] doesn't help the bottom line, but it is very important for the image of CBS' — This morning CBS CEO Les Moonves participated in a forum sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, a portion of that conversation focused on CBS News. Moonves talked about how happy …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and Home Media Magazine

Jessica Roy / Betabeat:

John McAfee Admits That Vice Accidentally Revealed His Location in Guatemala — The photo in question. (Photo: Vice) — Antivirus software king John McAfee finally admitted this morning that an “unseasoned technician at Vice headquarters” royally screwed him yesterday by accidentally revealing …

Discussion: VICE, Who is McAfee?, Business Insider and Guardian

Jeremy A. Kaplan / Fox News:
Magazine editors helped John McAfee flee Belize

Discussion: The Next Web and Who is McAfee?

Katy Bachman / Adweek:

FCC Media Ownership Rule Vote Pushed to Next Year — The Federal Communications Commission's quadrennial review of media ownership rules, already delayed two years, is delayed again. There will be no vote on the rules until early next year, at the earliest.